A movie buff, she loves watching trailers and historical moments on television. The next James Bond or Barack Obama’s inauguration speech gives him the same chills.
Away from the spotlight for several years, Audrey Tautou only makes media reappearances for works that are deeply close to her heart, avoiding all worldliness. She returns with a beautiful book where she explodes her talent as a photographer, confiding to “Madame Figaro” her complicated relationship with celebrity and one of its aspects: access to luxury.
From campervan vacations to VIP life, Audrey Tautou talks about this shift: “I was starting to enjoy luxury”
It is not with a film that he returns to the spotlight, but with a book. Always passionate about photography, she reveals Superfacial published by Fisheye, “a surprising work, between diary and gallery of (self) portraits“, according to Madame Figaro. A magazine which also devotes a beautiful portrait to him, in its November 15 issue. The discreet 48-year-old artist who shuns social life has agreed to confide in all modesty.
Unforgettable For more than twenty years, Audrey Tautou has been brutally thrown into stardom. If she never sought to be a star and remains a rather reserved personality, she nevertheless admits to having tasted the advantages of being a celebrity: “I began to enjoy luxury. I became one of those who pose on the covers of magazines, who know the palaces, the limousines, and who are lent jewelry and haute couture clothes.“
A complicated situation for her to live with: “I was a young girl of 20 who, suddenly, found herself taken from her original environment. I had a childhood in Montluçon, with classic parentss [père chirurgien, mère enseignante, précise Madame Figaro]even if they had an artistic streak. We spent our vacations in a campervan, and this new life of splendor left me perplexed.“
Far from the throes of fame, Audrey Tautou started her family
Unsurprisingly and despite the successes that followed, Audrey Tautou completely distanced herself from the media and society. It was therefore in secret that she became the mother of a girl. It was only three years later that she agreed to talk about it, in an interview with the magazine Vanity Fair. “I have never spoken about it publicly, ever! If I mention it, it’s because I can’t silence the heart of my life. Aafter many, many years of combat, uncertain, traumatic, I experienced this happiness which goes beyond what I expected. The moments I spend with my little treasure, I allow myself not to miss them just because I should be working. A book, a film, an exhibition, if it’s not me, it will be another….”
